Rate My Professor Earl Scime

Scime's research centers on plasma and space physics, with expertise in both laboratory and space plasmas. His activities include developing techniques for imaging low energy neutrals from space and laboratory plasmas, space plasma instrument design, plasma source development for industrial and scientific uses, single-photon, two-photon, and three-photon fluorescence diagnostics for ion and neutral velocity distributions in fusion and low-temperature plasmas, magnetic reconnection, Thomson scattering for electron velocity distribution functions, microwave scattering, and quantum-enhanced spectroscopy. Notable publications include "Radial evolution of the electron distribution functions in the fast solar wind between 0.3 and 1.5 AU" (Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2005), "Electron temperature anisotropy constraints in the solar wind" (Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 2008), "Ulysses solar wind plasma observations at high southerly latitudes" (Science, 1995), "Observations of ion-beam formation in a current-free double layer" (Physical Review Letters, 2005), and "Ion acceleration in plasmas emerging from a helicon-heated magnetic-mirror device" (Physics of Plasmas, 2003). His scholarship has garnered over 7,000 citations. Scime has received the WVU Distinction in Graduate Research Mentoring Award (2021), Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award, Eberly College Outstanding Research and Outstanding Teacher Awards, 2015 Outstanding Public Service Award, and 2015 Heebink Award for Distinguished State Service.